What dance are you dancing right now?

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Re: What dance are you dancing right now?

Postby barracuda » Fri Jan 18, 2013 11:51 am

There is no corner of the world that has not gone mad.

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Bolshoi Ballet’s artistic director attacked with acid

MOSCOW — The artistic director of the renowned, and in recent years strife-torn, Bolshoi Ballet was returning home from a theatrical celebration with the city’s glitterati when a masked man stepped out of the darkness and threw acid onto his face and eyes.

Sergei Filin, who was attacked about 11:30 p.m. Thursday, suffered third-degree burns. He underwent eye surgery Friday, according to Anatoly Iksanov, the Bolshoi’s director, who said Filin would be flown to Belgium for treatment at a burn clinic.

The Bolshoi’s artistic director occupies an all-powerful position, said former Bolshoi ballerina Anastasia Volochkova, inspiring anger and jealously. He decides who dances and who doesn’t, and who gets what part, making and breaking careers. Still, she was shocked that passion could take anyone so far.

“What’s happening there is a wild and scary fight,” she said on Ekho Moskvy radio Friday. “It’s a fight for roles.”

Volochkova became known here as “the fat ballerina” after the Bolshoi dismissed her in 2003, accusing her of being too heavy to lift. She weighed 109 pounds at the time, she said.

“In the past they dueled,” she said. “People used to cross swords or tried to have it out in a decent way. But splashing acid into the face . . . this is so low. It’s hard to make any comment.”

Iksanaov said there was grave concern that Filin might lose his sight, especially in one eye.

Katerina Novikova, press secretary for the Bolshoi, said that Filin had been repeatedly threatened in recent days. His tires had been slashed several times, his Facebook page was hacked and he had received ominous telephone calls.

“I am 100 percent confident that it is linked to his work,” Iksanov said on Russian television. “He is a man of principle and he has never made concessions. If he believed that a specific artist is not ready or not capable of performing a specific role, he declined him.”

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Re: What dance are you dancing right now?

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Libertango | Swingle Singers, Evelyn Glennie

Postby Allegro » Thu Feb 14, 2013 1:23 pm


^ Libertango | The Swingle Singers


^ Libertango | Dame Evelyn Glennie, profoundly deaf
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Don Quixote, ballet | Filin, Baryshnikov, Vasiliev, ballerin

Postby Allegro » Sat Feb 16, 2013 2:11 am

Refer Filin at top ^ of this page. Hear each of the top three videos present the identical scene with its music, and watch three choreographies performed by three ballerinos over approximately 35 years.


^ from Don Quixote | Sergei Filin, 2005


^ from Don Quixote | Mikhail Baryshnikov, mid to late 1970s?


^ from Don Quixote | Vladimir Vasiliev, 1969

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Bonus. At the time, his leaps were remarkable.


^ from Don Quixote | Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Mikhail Baryshnikov interviews

Postby Allegro » Sat Feb 16, 2013 2:14 am

Mikhail Baryshnikov speaks with regard to economic and societal pressures frustrating genuine performing and visual artists from fluidities of beauty into the mechanical.




^ Baryshnikov on his teacher, Alexander Pushkin
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Re: What dance are you dancing right now?

Postby Hammer of Los » Thu Feb 28, 2013 10:07 am

...

I was gonna say somethin' about dancin'.

But after watching Baryshnikov I'm lost for words.

Good job too.

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Re: What dance are you dancing right now?

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Re: What dance are you dancing right now?

Postby barracuda » Wed Apr 03, 2013 4:47 pm

Hey, look, it's compared2what?! Sure do miss you...

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Re: What dance are you dancing right now?

Postby justdrew » Wed Apr 03, 2013 5:05 pm

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Re: What dance are you dancing right now?

Postby barracuda » Fri May 24, 2013 11:41 pm

I've never been a fan of hers, but for some reason I watched this twice.



Also, hat tip to Iamwhomiam for indexing this bit of historical research:

Iamwhomiam » Fri May 24, 2013 5:23 am wrote:Here's a vile evil conspiracy you can get to the bottom of...
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Sokvannara "Sy" Sar | Cambodian dancer

Postby Allegro » Mon Jul 15, 2013 11:29 pm


^ Dancing Across Borders | Trailer


^ Dancing Across Borders

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Re: What dance are you dancing right now?

Postby Allegro » Sun Sep 15, 2013 10:19 pm


^ :partyhat We Can Dance Everything’s Out of Control
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oh sure baby, anything to please you

Postby IanEye » Tue Sep 17, 2013 7:01 pm

right now i am prancing around a large server room like Tina Turner.


Cavallino Rampante

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the politicians have forgotten this place
except for a flying visit in a black Mercedes
come election time - cross the line
everybody runs to catch the pantomime




if you could see what's going on around here
so many people hanging on the edge
crying out for revolution
retribution
the odds come out even
when you give up believing in the cold law


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Everybody is takin' a chance

Postby Allegro » Wed Sep 25, 2013 12:58 am

Another one.
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Dance like nobody’s watching.

Postby Allegro » Wed Sep 25, 2013 12:58 am

Gawd, I love the movement of the human body (inseparable from singing with Tina in a large server room). Dance like nobody’s watching.



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